MAIN POINTS ON ORGANISM INTERACT IN ECOSYSTEM

- Group of living things interact within ecosystem. (biome, ecosystem, community,

population, and organism).
- Organisms interact in different ways (symbiosis, mutualism, commensalism, paratilism)
- Ecosystem are always changing (primary and secondary)
GROUP OF LIVING THINGS INTERACT WITHIN ECOSYSTEM
1. Biome – Describe the climate and types of plants and animals that are found in similar
places around the world.
2. Ecosystem – the living and non-living thingks that interact in one environment.
3. Community – the living organisms of an ecosystem.
4. Population – a group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area.
5. Organism – A single living thing, made up of one ore many cells, that is capable of
growing and reproducing.
ORGANISMS CAN INTERACT IN DIFFERENT WAYS
- Organisms may cooperate, compete, or depend on each other for survival.
- Predators and Prey relationship
o Predator can affect how the prey populations are distributed (fish inlarge group)
o Prey can affect the location and number in predator populations (birds feeding
on insects migrate to the areas where the insect are plentiful.
Competetion – Competition is a struggle between individuals or different population for a
limited resource.Competition can happen with the same species (plants compete for light,
space and nutrients.Competition between different species (hyenas and vultures compete for
remains of dead animals)
Cooperation – Some organisms work together to benefits each other.
- Killer whale hunt in pods (groups)
- Ants, bee, and termites. (member of colony have different roles and resposibilities..
queen bee, worker bees, ect.)
Symbiosis – Two different species who live together in a close relationship
- Both species benefit
- One species benefit while the other is not affected
- One species benefits while the other is harmed
Types of symbiosis
- Mutualism – two species interacting with each other that benefits both speies (bees,
and flowers)
- Commensalism – two species interacting with each other with one species benefiting
and the other unaffected. (jellyfish and fish)
- Parasitism – two species interacting while one species benefits and the host pecies
harmed. Example is human parasites.
ECOSYSTEMS ARE ALWAYS CHANGING
- Succession- The gradual change in an ecosystem in which one biological community is
replaced by other.

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Primary succession – the establishment of a new biological community in an area of a
bare rocks (plants moving in after a lava flow or glacier retreats)
Secondary succession – occurs after a major disturbance happens and the soil still remains
(forest and fire)